Continuing the conversation in nursing on race and racism

Unconscious Race and Class Biases among Registered Nurses: Vignette-Based Study Using Implicit Association Testing

“…8,11 What the evidence from physicians does clearly suggest is that most of the impact of unconscious bias can be mediated through communicationda fact that further underscores the need to understand implicit biases among nursing populations, given a nurse's considerable opportunity to foster communication with patients, especially about important management decisions, such as the timing and dose of analgesic medications given, communicating care goals with patients and their families, and responding to acute changes in a patient's vital signs. 16,17 To that end, this study will use clinical vignettes to investigate if nurses' implicit preferences are associated with their clinical management of acute care surgical patients. 8,11 …”

“Turning the tide” in Treatment of substance use: A nursing response

“…To change the terminology and thinking about SUDs, negative comments and actions toward people with substance use disorders should be addressed similarly to other prejudicial comments such as those related to race or micro-aggression. [29] Changing stigmatizing terminology however must be enacted both in an individual and a systems perspective.…”

Uniting Postcolonial, Discourse, and Linguistic Theory to Explore Participation of African Americans in Cancer Research as an Effect of Social and Historical Race Relationships

“…[21][22][23][24]29 The words difference, race, culture, and ethnicity are often used in various discourses, many times inconsistently, to represent and reference people as inferior or marginal. [21][22][23][24]30 The meaning of race over time, as it is represented in health-science literature, has vacillated from descriptive characteristics to biological fact and to a social construction. Although the predominant understanding of race is currently as a category of biological origin versus a social construction, 30 postcolonial theory suggests that racial identities are shaped by the social structures and relations in and through which they are created and reproduced.…”

“…[21][22][23][24]30 The meaning of race over time, as it is represented in health-science literature, has vacillated from descriptive characteristics to biological fact and to a social construction. Although the predominant understanding of race is currently as a category of biological origin versus a social construction, 30 postcolonial theory suggests that racial identities are shaped by the social structures and relations in and through which they are created and reproduced. Racialized systems of coding and classification used by scientists, research teams, and the health care community perpetuate a notion of discrete, segmented groups.…”

“…30,33 Racial beliefs and values are socially constructed, perpetuated, and legitimatized by discursive practices in the research community. The everyday language that constitutes a research protocol, participant recruitment, targeted populations, inclusion/exclusion criteria, and dissemination of research outcomes are detailed strategies often laced with racial specifications.…”